Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85033035
Found in 499 Collections and/or Records:
Marie Ball Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3472
Overview
Newspaper clipping from 1954, a letter from 1894, and an unpublished manuscript about the early history of Tuscaloosa from 1874-1897
Dates:
1950
Marion Wilson Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3153
Overview
Letter from Marion Wilson of Jakarta, Indonesia, to Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Britton of Alaska, recounting the events of the past year.
Dates:
1978-12-06
Emmett N. McCall papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0943
Abstract
Financial records and ledgers of McCall's Dixonville Racket Store, a general store in the Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama, area. Also includes correspondence, Mormon church records, mortgage deeds, and cotton acreage allotments.
Dates:
1874-1944
McCorvey and Tutwiler families papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0947
Overview
A collection of correspondence, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs created by these families.
Dates:
1830 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950
Edward F. McCrossin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0950
Overview
Contains personal papers and company records.
Dates:
Unknown
John Rankin McLure papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0964
Overview
Contains records created by this University of Alabama College of Education dean
Dates:
Unknown
Alexander Beaufort Meek papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0973
Overview
Legal papers and correspondence, as well as photocopies of Meek's AB from the University of Alabama, and a commission as an attorney of the United States for Southern District of Alabama from James K. Polk (1846)
Dates:
1833-1866
Jennie Miller letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2459
Overview
Letters to Jennie Miller (Mrs. Earl Adams) of Shelby, Ohio, and Angola, Indiana, from friends and family
Dates:
1905-1924
Early Huntsville, Alabama, letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0100
Overview
Two unrelated letters, dated from 1822 and 1831, containing information about Huntsville, Alabama.
Dates:
1822, 1831
Mobile, Alabama, business correspondence
Collection
Identifier: W-0098
Overview
Letters, dated between 1821 and 1838, describing business conditions in Mobile, Alabama, written by Mobile lawyers to northern merchants Enoch Silsby and William R. Bowers, updating them on the status of legal cases they had filed in Mobile and updates on the sale and production of cotton.
Dates:
1821-1838
Frank M. Moody papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2322
Overview
Poster with family Christmas cards and a scrapbook about Frank M. Moody
Dates:
1954-1968
Morgan Smith Gilmer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0571
Overview
Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.
Dates:
1954
Morris E. Boss letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0078
Overview
Thirteen letters written by Morris E. Boss and members of the Boss family of Binghamton, New York.
Dates:
1861 - 1865
Myer L. Feldman Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3687
Overview
Letters from Myer L. Feldman to his wife, Ida, and baby daughter, Sally Ann, while he was in the United States Navy, stationed at the Sampson Naval Training Base near Seneca, New York, and aboard the USS LSM(R)-197 amphibious ship.
Dates:
1944-1945
Roy L. Nolen correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1051
Abstract
Correspondence between Montgomery, Alabama, postmaster and Democratic Party activist Roy L. Nolen and U.S. Senator Lister Hill as well as a few other persons. The letters address appointments, elections, political campaigns, the war effort, and etc, 1928-1944.
Dates:
1925-1944
Northington Hospital papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2425
Overview
Photos, letters, blueprints, newspapers. and a scrapbook from the Northington Naval Reserve located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, during and after World War II.
Dates:
1940-2001
Alice J. Norton letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0166
Overview
The correspondence, outgoing and incoming, of botanist and author Alice J. Norton of Bristol, Connecticut.
Dates:
1864-1899
O. B. Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0485
Overview
The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between O. B. Emerson and various individuals including authors, former students, and other faculty and staff from The University of Alabama. The collection also includes materials about different authors and subjects on which Dr. Emerson either taught or published, as well as a significant amount of materials related to professional organizations in which he was involved.
Dates:
1945 - 1990
O. T. Brown letter
Collection
Identifier: W-0154
Overview
Letter from O. T. Brown to the president of the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy describing his experiences as a soldier during the Civil War.
Dates:
1898-05-26
Oak Hill Memorial Association papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2964
Overview
Correspondence and documents from the Oak Hill Memorial Association, caretakers of Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dates:
1913-1953
Ogletree family letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3621
Overview
Letters from family members
Dates:
1895 and 1922
Mary Pickens Opie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1073
Overview
Letters from family and friends, recipes, sheet music and handwritten compositions, including "Diary of a Private" - 1914 autobiography of __ Hubbard, private in the 6th Tennessee Cavalry during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1887-1946
Oscar W. Underwood papers, 1898-1924
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.18
Scope and Contents
Twenty letters written by and about 1924 Democratic presidential nominee Oscar Wilder Underwood.
Dates:
1898-1924
Doris Turner Osten letter from Dr. George Denny
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4092
Overview
Small handwritten Christmas card from Dr. George Denny
Dates:
1952 December 22
Erik Per Overbey Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3973
Overview
Overbey's collection of correspondence with and clippings of several University of Alabama alumni
Dates:
1947-1989
Fred M. Owen letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3004
Overview
A letter to Joshua P. Eyre from his friend, Fred M. Owen in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1868 August 6
George W. Owen letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1083
Abstract
A collection of three letters, 1823-36, one to Israel Pickens, seeking advice about resigning from the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, one to politician Francis P. Blair, and one to the Globe newspaper.
Dates:
1823-1836
Thomas McAdory Owen correspondence on A Bibliography of Mississippi
Collection
Identifier: W-0093
Overview
Contains correspondence between Thomas McAdory Owen and Mississippi authors and scholars regarding Owen's A Bibliography of Mississippi.
Dates:
1896-1909
George David Palmer Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1096
Abstract
Correspondence and papers of a University of Alabama faculty member in the School of Chemistry (1927-1968) who was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Research Institute and the Southern Association of Science and Industry.
Dates:
1921-1964
William Dempsey Partlow papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1109
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, an autobiography, a short biography, addresses, copies of Partlow's publications, and newspaper clippings. His correspondents included Alabama industrialist and U.S. Congressman Frank W. Boykin, and University of Alabama President and Chancellor George H. Denny.
Dates:
1907-1950
Abner E. Patton Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4056
Overview
Letters from a Confederate soldier in the Eleventh Alabama Infantry to his family.
Dates:
1861-1953
Perry County, Alabama, papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0139
Abstract
Letters and other documents donated by a source in Perry County, Alabama. The collection consists of eight letters to Elias Benson. There is also one summons order included in the Elias Benson series. Another series contains the will of Philip Smith of South Carolina. The Thomas and Mary Jones series contains three statements of debt made to John E. Cook, along with an indenture statement and draft. The final series includes miscellaneous documents including deed certification, court records,...
Dates:
1796 - 1898
Peter and Rose Swereda Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1817
Abstract
Includes letters written by a World War II bomber pilot and his wife from training facilities in Tennessee and Alabama to his family in New Jersey.
Dates:
1943 - 1944
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
Betsy Plank collection on Helen Keller
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2397
Overview
Materials about Helen Keller and her companions, Annie Sullivan Macy and Polly Thomson. Much of the correspondence is written by Polly Thomson to Adelyn Hood.
Dates:
after 1928
Quaker Club records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1174
Abstract
Minutes, yearbooks, members' correspondence, newspaper clippings, photos, event programs, and scrapbooks of this Tuscaloosa, Alabama, young women's civic organization.
Dates:
1897-1970
R. Henry Hudson letter, after 1800
File — Box WSC001: [1006241611], Folder: W0129.02
Scope and Contents
This draft of a letter from R. Henry Hudson to an unknown party discusses a dispute around an unpaid bill. There is no indication where or when this draft was written.
Dates:
after 1800
R. Landesberger letter and music
Collection
Identifier: W-0121
Overview
Handwritten letter and sheet of music from Geneva (Switzerland) professor Dr. R. Landesberger to President Woodrow Wilson, dated January 7, 1919. A typed transcript of the letter is also included.
Dates:
1919-01-07
John Ramsey papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3799
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, and bank statements
Dates:
unknown
Reade family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3674
Overview
Materials from three generations of the Reade family
Dates:
1917-1982
Redden-Lancaster Families World War II Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4163
Overview
Letters from Lloyd D. (Don) and Sergeant Glen C. Redden, and Robert Lancaster to the Redden's sister and brother-in-law and Lancaster's brother and sister-in-law, Barbara and James Lancaster. The letters illustrate the similar and differing experiences the men had during the war and depict a soldier's life from basic training to deployment.
Dates:
1941 - 1945
Richard Delafulo Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2715
Overview
A letter from Richard Delafulo of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Hunt in Pensacola, Florida, about Hunt's request for a steam engine for a saw mill.
Dates:
1836-06-27
Richard Furman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0549
Overview
Photocopied documents, including letters, poetry, news clippings, class work, essays, and journal entries of Alabama school administrator and preacher.
Dates:
1826-1865
Richard Holmes Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0079
Overview
Correspondence, essays, and speeches written by and to Richard Holmes Powell of Union Springs,Alabama, and includes the essay "On the Management of Slaves."
Dates:
1833 - 1905
Warfield Creath Richardson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1194
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of Richardson's literary output, dating from 1842 to 1914. Included are poems, short stories, essays, plays, and lectures in handwritten and printed drafts, proof sheets, pamphlets, and clippings. There is also a small collection of letters. It contains a letter from Henry Wordsworth Longfellow and two from Thomas M. Owen.
Dates:
1842-1937
Robert A. Patterson Civil War Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4334
Scope and Contents
This collection of six letters to family members was written by Robert A. Patterson, who was traveling with Company F of the 57th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry through Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama between 1862-1864. The letters describe the unit's actions and movements, interactions with locals, and encounters with enslaved persons escaping slaveholders.
Dates:
1862 - 1865
Robert D. Lilley Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2458
Overview
Letters to or concerning Robert D. Lilley of Hillsboro, Ohio, and Jane Telfair of Staunton, Virginia, from 1804 to 1851.
Dates:
1804 - 1851
Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0753
Abstract
The Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers span the period from 1797 to 1960 and include both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges,...
Dates:
1797 - 1973
Robert Loveman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0879
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of correspondence, 1884-1923, to and from a University of Alabama graduate, author, and poet.
Dates:
1884 - 1981
Robert N. Kirk Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0825
Abstract
A copy of a letter dated 23 June 1848, from Pickens County, Alabama, to his uncle Matthew Biggert Kirk, Lancaster Court House, South Carolina in which he tells of setting up his medical practice and recounts family news.
Dates:
1848-06-23